Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 2 | After this type of cathartic outburst , no one seemed to reflect that this offender had a determinate sentence and would be allowed out eventually . |
| 3 | In general terms , where any tax or duty was paid by a citizen pursuant to an unlawful demand , common justice seemed to require that that tax or duty ought to be repaid , unless special circumstances or some principle of policy required otherwise . |
| 4 | Indeed , the logic seemed to require that such punishment should take place in public . |
| 5 | At home , money meant food or perhaps , if one had saved a lot , more land , but here the shops were full of the most amazing commodities and getting money at the end of the week seemed to suggest that these things were within one 's reach . |
| 6 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 7 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 8 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 9 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 10 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 11 | She seemed to realise that this comment was not exactly reassuring and hastened to make amends . |
| 12 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 13 | The one who was born Greek and fluent , had lost his baggage , presumably in transit in London , and wanted action , and seemed to think that young Erlich would do the needful . |
| 14 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 15 | It was a scene of desperation , but Dahrendorf seemed to feel that this kind of community DIY activity could be a part of the answer to the problem of a permanent and growing rate of unemployment . |
| 16 | As such preliminary results seem to indicate that these approaches are safer and quieter than unreconstructed streets , as well as being more widely applicable than the Woonerf-style rebuilding which must be restricted to lightly trafficked streets , the case for their continued application seems to be a strong one . |
| 17 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 18 | Mr Round , and his colleagues in PAT , seem to think that all accusations of sex abuse are malicious fabrications . |
| 19 | They seem to think that teenage mothers ca n't look after children properly . |
| 20 | However , this need not be too serious an objection , and the fact that native speakers seem to think that this transcription fits better with their feelings about the language is a good argument in its favour . |
| 21 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 22 | This seems to indicate that most drivers have heeded the message of drink driving campaigns . |
| 23 | ‘ Evidence seems to suggest that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents , which is not surprising because they are very inexperienced , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Maynard ( 1981 : 124 ) seems to suggest that -wa marks topic , although she uses the term ‘ theme ’ : |
| 25 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 26 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
| 27 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
| 28 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |
| 29 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |